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Vladimir Nabokov
Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
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The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade’s editor…
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Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he…
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A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle’s country estate, in a ‘dream-bright’ America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross…
Paul Benedict Grant
The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour
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Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov’s baker’s dozen.
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to…
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady’s twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he’ll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is…
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he’ll do anything to possess. Is he in love or…
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, ‘to fix once for all the perilous…
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An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers…
Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen.
Hilarious, intelligent and moving, Pnin is the tale of a generation irrevocably severed from its past
Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart…
The now classic story of Humbert Humbert’s obsession with the twelve-year-old Lolita.
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Dr Julie Loison-Charles
Exploring the deeply translational and transnational nature of the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, this book argues that all his work is unified by the permanent presence of three cultures and…
Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.
Dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz.
Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this…
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David Rampton
Vladimir Nabakov considers the novelist’s aesthetic precepts and practice and the character of his work and the book also gives consideration of his fiction in the larger context of the…
Barbara Wyllie
‘I am almost exclusively a writer, and my style is all I have’, wrote Vladimir Nabokov (1899 1977). This book presents an account of the life and works of the…
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A major publishing event from one of the greatest prose stylists of our time, The Complete Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov brings together all of Nabokov’s short fiction in one…
An extraordinary collection of Nabokov’s little-known published material from across his life - from student essays to his last interviews
The last major collection of Nabokov’s published material, Think, Write…
Fredson Bowers,Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others – with an introduction by John Updike.
Brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers. The twenty-eight interviews and profiles in this collection were drawn from Nabokov’s numerous print and broadcast…
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Stephen Jan Parker Parker,Greg Johnson
Understanding Contemporary American Literature was planned as a series of guides or companions for students as well as good non-academic readers. These volumes provide instruction in how to read certain…
Indispensable for understanding the historical, cultural and intellectual contexts of Nabokov’s work for students of English, American and Russian literary and cultural studies. This book is also essential reading for…
This first novel published by Vladamir Nabokov tells the story of a man, spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by…
Berlin in the late twenties provides the setting for this novel about a woman’s scheme to murder her husband to live on his money with his nephew.
‘Look at the harlequins …Play! Invent the world! Invent reality’. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then…
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine Average Man party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has…
When Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel…
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This, the narrator tells us, is the real life of famous author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight’s death, his half-brother sets out to penetrate the mystery of the…
Vladimir Nabokov’s brilliant, endlessly inventive imagination and pyrotechnical literary genius continue to astound in the stories The Return of Chorb, The Aurelian, Russian Spoken Here, Cloud, Castle, Lake, Mademoiselle O…
Nabokov’s first novel is now available in a trade paper edition. Here is the dark tale of a handsome officer who lives next door to his lover’s husband in a…
Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, Mary, is a well written story about a youthful love.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 - 2 July 1977), also known by…
One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the…
Ganin, a young Russian exiled in Berlin between the wars, dreams of leaving the city while recalling his childhood and adolescence in Russia and his early romance with Mashenka, a…
The discovery of chess is for Luzhin the revelation of an order of impeccable harmony in which he takes refuge from his unhappy adolescence and develop a brilliant career as…
The protagonist relates the life of his half-brother, the novelist Sebastian Knight, in an effort to reveal his true character.
These four plays and the two essays on drama that accompany them were written in Russian during Nabokov’s emigre years in Germany and France, before his published work in English…
